Jon Fasman

About

Writer, editor, reporter and podcaster with 25 years' experience, at The Economist since 2003 (with a brief break from 2005-7), currently serving as the American business and society correspondent. I began as a writer and editor on our then-fledgling website. I then helped set up our first multimedia team, opened our office in Atlanta and spent four years there covering politics and business in the South, then was South-East Asia bureau chief and Washington correspondent during most of the Trump administration. I was the US digital editor, overseeing all non-print coverage of America, and then hosted "The Intelligence," our daily-news podcast. I am a regular panelist on "Checks and Balance," our American-politics podcast, which I helped develop and launch in early 2020, as well as a regular contributor to multiple sections of The Economist as well as our sister publication, 1843. I have written three books. "We See It All: Liberty and Justice in an Age of Perpetual Surveillance," was published in early 2021. My second novel, "The Unpossessed City," (2008) was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions award, and my first, "The Geographer's Library" (2005) was a New York Times bestseller.